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<title>bpf: Support pointers in global func args</title>
<updated>2021-02-13T01:37:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitrii Banshchikov</name>
<email>me@ubique.spb.ru</email>
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<published>2021-02-12T20:56:41+00:00</published>
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Add an ability to pass a pointer to a type with known size in arguments
of a global function. Such pointers may be used to overcome the limit on
the maximum number of arguments, avoid expensive and tricky workarounds
and to have multiple output arguments.

A referenced type may contain pointers but indirect access through them
isn't supported.

The implementation consists of two parts.  If a global function has an
argument that is a pointer to a type with known size then:

  1) In btf_check_func_arg_match(): check that the corresponding
register points to NULL or to a valid memory region that is large enough
to contain the expected argument's type.

  2) In btf_prepare_func_args(): set the corresponding register type to
PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL and its size to the size of the expected type.

Only global functions are supported because allowance of pointers for
static functions might break validation. Consider the following
scenario. A static function has a pointer argument. A caller passes
pointer to its stack memory. Because the callee can change referenced
memory verifier cannot longer assume any particular slot type of the
caller's stack memory hence the slot type is changed to SLOT_MISC.  If
there is an operation that relies on slot type other than SLOT_MISC then
verifier won't be able to infer safety of the operation.

When verifier sees a static function that has a pointer argument
different from PTR_TO_CTX then it skips arguments check and continues
with "inline" validation with more information available. The operation
that relies on the particular slot type now succeeds.

Because global functions were not allowed to have pointer arguments
different from PTR_TO_CTX it's not possible to break existing and valid
code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Banshchikov &lt;me@ubique.spb.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210212205642.620788-4-me@ubique.spb.ru
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Add an ability to pass a pointer to a type with known size in arguments
of a global function. Such pointers may be used to overcome the limit on
the maximum number of arguments, avoid expensive and tricky workarounds
and to have multiple output arguments.

A referenced type may contain pointers but indirect access through them
isn't supported.

The implementation consists of two parts.  If a global function has an
argument that is a pointer to a type with known size then:

  1) In btf_check_func_arg_match(): check that the corresponding
register points to NULL or to a valid memory region that is large enough
to contain the expected argument's type.

  2) In btf_prepare_func_args(): set the corresponding register type to
PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL and its size to the size of the expected type.

Only global functions are supported because allowance of pointers for
static functions might break validation. Consider the following
scenario. A static function has a pointer argument. A caller passes
pointer to its stack memory. Because the callee can change referenced
memory verifier cannot longer assume any particular slot type of the
caller's stack memory hence the slot type is changed to SLOT_MISC.  If
there is an operation that relies on slot type other than SLOT_MISC then
verifier won't be able to infer safety of the operation.

When verifier sees a static function that has a pointer argument
different from PTR_TO_CTX then it skips arguments check and continues
with "inline" validation with more information available. The operation
that relies on the particular slot type now succeeds.

Because global functions were not allowed to have pointer arguments
different from PTR_TO_CTX it's not possible to break existing and valid
code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Banshchikov &lt;me@ubique.spb.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210212205642.620788-4-me@ubique.spb.ru
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Allow variable-offset stack access</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T18:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Matei</name>
<email>andreimatei1@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-07T01:10:24+00:00</published>
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Before this patch, variable offset access to the stack was dissalowed
for regular instructions, but was allowed for "indirect" accesses (i.e.
helpers). This patch removes the restriction, allowing reading and
writing to the stack through stack pointers with variable offsets. This
makes stack-allocated buffers more usable in programs, and brings stack
pointers closer to other types of pointers.

The motivation is being able to use stack-allocated buffers for data
manipulation. When the stack size limit is sufficient, allocating
buffers on the stack is simpler than per-cpu arrays, or other
alternatives.

In unpriviledged programs, variable-offset reads and writes are
disallowed (they were already disallowed for the indirect access case)
because the speculative execution checking code doesn't support them.
Additionally, when writing through a variable-offset stack pointer, if
any pointers are in the accessible range, there's possilibities of later
leaking pointers because the write cannot be tracked precisely.

Writes with variable offset mark the whole range as initialized, even
though we don't know which stack slots are actually written. This is in
order to not reject future reads to these slots. Note that this doesn't
affect writes done through helpers; like before, helpers need the whole
stack range to be initialized to begin with.
All the stack slots are in range are considered scalars after the write;
variable-offset register spills are not tracked.

For reads, all the stack slots in the variable range needs to be
initialized (but see above about what writes do), otherwise the read is
rejected. All register spilled in stack slots that might be read are
marked as having been read, however reads through such pointers don't do
register filling; the target register will always be either a scalar or
a constant zero.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Matei &lt;andreimatei1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210207011027.676572-2-andreimatei1@gmail.com
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Before this patch, variable offset access to the stack was dissalowed
for regular instructions, but was allowed for "indirect" accesses (i.e.
helpers). This patch removes the restriction, allowing reading and
writing to the stack through stack pointers with variable offsets. This
makes stack-allocated buffers more usable in programs, and brings stack
pointers closer to other types of pointers.

The motivation is being able to use stack-allocated buffers for data
manipulation. When the stack size limit is sufficient, allocating
buffers on the stack is simpler than per-cpu arrays, or other
alternatives.

In unpriviledged programs, variable-offset reads and writes are
disallowed (they were already disallowed for the indirect access case)
because the speculative execution checking code doesn't support them.
Additionally, when writing through a variable-offset stack pointer, if
any pointers are in the accessible range, there's possilibities of later
leaking pointers because the write cannot be tracked precisely.

Writes with variable offset mark the whole range as initialized, even
though we don't know which stack slots are actually written. This is in
order to not reject future reads to these slots. Note that this doesn't
affect writes done through helpers; like before, helpers need the whole
stack range to be initialized to begin with.
All the stack slots are in range are considered scalars after the write;
variable-offset register spills are not tracked.

For reads, all the stack slots in the variable range needs to be
initialized (but see above about what writes do), otherwise the read is
rejected. All register spilled in stack slots that might be read are
marked as having been read, however reads through such pointers don't do
register filling; the target register will always be either a scalar or
a constant zero.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Matei &lt;andreimatei1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210207011027.676572-2-andreimatei1@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Support BPF ksym variables in kernel modules</title>
<updated>2021-01-13T01:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-12T07:55:18+00:00</published>
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Add support for directly accessing kernel module variables from BPF programs
using special ldimm64 instructions. This functionality builds upon vmlinux
ksym support, but extends ldimm64 with src_reg=BPF_PSEUDO_BTF_ID to allow
specifying kernel module BTF's FD in insn[1].imm field.

During BPF program load time, verifier will resolve FD to BTF object and will
take reference on BTF object itself and, for module BTFs, corresponding module
as well, to make sure it won't be unloaded from under running BPF program. The
mechanism used is similar to how bpf_prog keeps track of used bpf_maps.

One interesting change is also in how per-CPU variable is determined. The
logic is to find .data..percpu data section in provided BTF, but both vmlinux
and module each have their own .data..percpu entries in BTF. So for module's
case, the search for DATASEC record needs to look at only module's added BTF
types. This is implemented with custom search function.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210112075520.4103414-6-andrii@kernel.org
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Add support for directly accessing kernel module variables from BPF programs
using special ldimm64 instructions. This functionality builds upon vmlinux
ksym support, but extends ldimm64 with src_reg=BPF_PSEUDO_BTF_ID to allow
specifying kernel module BTF's FD in insn[1].imm field.

During BPF program load time, verifier will resolve FD to BTF object and will
take reference on BTF object itself and, for module BTFs, corresponding module
as well, to make sure it won't be unloaded from under running BPF program. The
mechanism used is similar to how bpf_prog keeps track of used bpf_maps.

One interesting change is also in how per-CPU variable is determined. The
logic is to find .data..percpu data section in provided BTF, but both vmlinux
and module each have their own .data..percpu entries in BTF. So for module's
case, the search for DATASEC record needs to look at only module's added BTF
types. This is implemented with custom search function.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210112075520.4103414-6-andrii@kernel.org
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<title>bpf: Remove hard-coded btf_vmlinux assumption from BPF verifier</title>
<updated>2020-12-04T01:38:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-03T20:46:29+00:00</published>
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Remove a permeating assumption thoughout BPF verifier of vmlinux BTF. Instead,
wherever BTF type IDs are involved, also track the instance of struct btf that
goes along with the type ID. This allows to gradually add support for kernel
module BTFs and using/tracking module types across BPF helper calls and
registers.

This patch also renames btf_id() function to btf_obj_id() to minimize naming
clash with using btf_id to denote BTF *type* ID, rather than BTF *object*'s ID.

Also, altough btf_vmlinux can't get destructed and thus doesn't need
refcounting, module BTFs need that, so apply BTF refcounting universally when
BPF program is using BTF-powered attachment (tp_btf, fentry/fexit, etc). This
makes for simpler clean up code.

Now that BTF type ID is not enough to uniquely identify a BTF type, extend BPF
trampoline key to include BTF object ID. To differentiate that from target
program BPF ID, set 31st bit of type ID. BTF type IDs (at least currently) are
not allowed to take full 32 bits, so there is no danger of confusing that bit
with a valid BTF type ID.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201203204634.1325171-10-andrii@kernel.org
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Remove a permeating assumption thoughout BPF verifier of vmlinux BTF. Instead,
wherever BTF type IDs are involved, also track the instance of struct btf that
goes along with the type ID. This allows to gradually add support for kernel
module BTFs and using/tracking module types across BPF helper calls and
registers.

This patch also renames btf_id() function to btf_obj_id() to minimize naming
clash with using btf_id to denote BTF *type* ID, rather than BTF *object*'s ID.

Also, altough btf_vmlinux can't get destructed and thus doesn't need
refcounting, module BTFs need that, so apply BTF refcounting universally when
BPF program is using BTF-powered attachment (tp_btf, fentry/fexit, etc). This
makes for simpler clean up code.

Now that BTF type ID is not enough to uniquely identify a BTF type, extend BPF
trampoline key to include BTF object ID. To differentiate that from target
program BPF ID, set 31st bit of type ID. BTF type IDs (at least currently) are
not allowed to take full 32 bits, so there is no danger of confusing that bit
with a valid BTF type ID.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201203204634.1325171-10-andrii@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Support for pointers beyond pkt_end.</title>
<updated>2020-11-13T00:42:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-11T03:12:11+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the verifier support to recognize inlined branch conditions.
The LLVM knows that the branch evaluates to the same value, but the verifier
couldn't track it. Hence causing valid programs to be rejected.
The potential LLVM workaround: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87428
can have undesired side effects, since LLVM doesn't know that
skb-&gt;data/data_end are being compared. LLVM has to introduce extra boolean
variable and use inline_asm trick to force easier for the verifier assembly.

Instead teach the verifier to recognize that
r1 = skb-&gt;data;
r1 += 10;
r2 = skb-&gt;data_end;
if (r1 &gt; r2) {
  here r1 points beyond packet_end and
  subsequent
  if (r1 &gt; r2) // always evaluates to "true".
}

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201111031213.25109-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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This patch adds the verifier support to recognize inlined branch conditions.
The LLVM knows that the branch evaluates to the same value, but the verifier
couldn't track it. Hence causing valid programs to be rejected.
The potential LLVM workaround: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87428
can have undesired side effects, since LLVM doesn't know that
skb-&gt;data/data_end are being compared. LLVM has to introduce extra boolean
variable and use inline_asm trick to force easier for the verifier assembly.

Instead teach the verifier to recognize that
r1 = skb-&gt;data;
r1 += 10;
r2 = skb-&gt;data_end;
if (r1 &gt; r2) {
  here r1 points beyond packet_end and
  subsequent
  if (r1 &gt; r2) // always evaluates to "true".
}

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201111031213.25109-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Introduce pseudo_btf_id</title>
<updated>2020-10-02T21:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hao Luo</name>
<email>haoluo@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-29T23:50:44+00:00</published>
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Pseudo_btf_id is a type of ld_imm insn that associates a btf_id to a
ksym so that further dereferences on the ksym can use the BTF info
to validate accesses. Internally, when seeing a pseudo_btf_id ld insn,
the verifier reads the btf_id stored in the insn[0]'s imm field and
marks the dst_reg as PTR_TO_BTF_ID. The btf_id points to a VAR_KIND,
which is encoded in btf_vminux by pahole. If the VAR is not of a struct
type, the dst reg will be marked as PTR_TO_MEM instead of PTR_TO_BTF_ID
and the mem_size is resolved to the size of the VAR's type.

&gt;From the VAR btf_id, the verifier can also read the address of the
ksym's corresponding kernel var from kallsyms and use that to fill
dst_reg.

Therefore, the proper functionality of pseudo_btf_id depends on (1)
kallsyms and (2) the encoding of kernel global VARs in pahole, which
should be available since pahole v1.18.

Signed-off-by: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929235049.2533242-2-haoluo@google.com
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Pseudo_btf_id is a type of ld_imm insn that associates a btf_id to a
ksym so that further dereferences on the ksym can use the BTF info
to validate accesses. Internally, when seeing a pseudo_btf_id ld insn,
the verifier reads the btf_id stored in the insn[0]'s imm field and
marks the dst_reg as PTR_TO_BTF_ID. The btf_id points to a VAR_KIND,
which is encoded in btf_vminux by pahole. If the VAR is not of a struct
type, the dst reg will be marked as PTR_TO_MEM instead of PTR_TO_BTF_ID
and the mem_size is resolved to the size of the VAR's type.

&gt;From the VAR btf_id, the verifier can also read the address of the
ksym's corresponding kernel var from kallsyms and use that to fill
dst_reg.

Therefore, the proper functionality of pseudo_btf_id depends on (1)
kallsyms and (2) the encoding of kernel global VARs in pahole, which
should be available since pahole v1.18.

Signed-off-by: Hao Luo &lt;haoluo@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929235049.2533242-2-haoluo@google.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: verifier: refactor check_attach_btf_id()</title>
<updated>2020-09-29T00:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-25T21:25:02+00:00</published>
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The check_attach_btf_id() function really does three things:

1. It performs a bunch of checks on the program to ensure that the
   attachment is valid.

2. It stores a bunch of state about the attachment being requested in
   the verifier environment and struct bpf_prog objects.

3. It allocates a trampoline for the attachment.

This patch splits out (1.) and (3.) into separate functions which will
perform the checks, but return the computed values instead of directly
modifying the environment. This is done in preparation for reusing the
checks when the actual attachment is happening, which will allow tracing
programs to have multiple (compatible) attachments.

This also fixes a bug where a bunch of checks were skipped if a trampoline
already existed for the tracing target.

Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
Fixes: 1e6c62a88215 ("bpf: Introduce sleepable BPF programs")
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The check_attach_btf_id() function really does three things:

1. It performs a bunch of checks on the program to ensure that the
   attachment is valid.

2. It stores a bunch of state about the attachment being requested in
   the verifier environment and struct bpf_prog objects.

3. It allocates a trampoline for the attachment.

This patch splits out (1.) and (3.) into separate functions which will
perform the checks, but return the computed values instead of directly
modifying the environment. This is done in preparation for reusing the
checks when the actual attachment is happening, which will allow tracing
programs to have multiple (compatible) attachments.

This also fixes a bug where a bunch of checks were skipped if a trampoline
already existed for the tracing target.

Fixes: 6ba43b761c41 ("bpf: Attachment verification for BPF_MODIFY_RETURN")
Fixes: 1e6c62a88215 ("bpf: Introduce sleepable BPF programs")
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: change logging calls from verbose() to bpf_log() and use log pointer</title>
<updated>2020-09-29T00:09:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-25T21:25:01+00:00</published>
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In preparation for moving code around, change a bunch of references to
env-&gt;log (and the verbose() logging helper) to use bpf_log() and a direct
pointer to struct bpf_verifier_log. While we're touching the function
signature, mark the 'prog' argument to bpf_check_type_match() as const.

Also enhance the bpf_verifier_log_needed() check to handle NULL pointers
for the log struct so we can re-use the code with logging disabled.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation for moving code around, change a bunch of references to
env-&gt;log (and the verbose() logging helper) to use bpf_log() and a direct
pointer to struct bpf_verifier_log. While we're touching the function
signature, mark the 'prog' argument to bpf_check_type_match() as const.

Also enhance the bpf_verifier_log_needed() check to handle NULL pointers
for the log struct so we can re-use the code with logging disabled.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf: Add abnormal return checks.</title>
<updated>2020-09-18T02:56:07+00:00</updated>
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<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2020-09-18T02:09:18+00:00</published>
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LD_[ABS|IND] instructions may return from the function early. bpf_tail_call
pseudo instruction is either fallthrough or return. Allow them in the
subprograms only when subprograms are BTF annotated and have scalar return
types. Allow ld_abs and tail_call in the main program even if it calls into
subprograms. In the past that was not ok to do for ld_abs, since it was JITed
with special exit sequence. Since bpf_gen_ld_abs() was introduced the ld_abs
looks like normal exit insn from JIT point of view, so it's safe to allow them
in the main program.

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LD_[ABS|IND] instructions may return from the function early. bpf_tail_call
pseudo instruction is either fallthrough or return. Allow them in the
subprograms only when subprograms are BTF annotated and have scalar return
types. Allow ld_abs and tail_call in the main program even if it calls into
subprograms. In the past that was not ok to do for ld_abs, since it was JITed
with special exit sequence. Since bpf_gen_ld_abs() was introduced the ld_abs
looks like normal exit insn from JIT point of view, so it's safe to allow them
in the main program.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>bpf, x64: rework pro/epilogue and tailcall handling in JIT</title>
<updated>2020-09-18T02:55:30+00:00</updated>
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<name>Maciej Fijalkowski</name>
<email>maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com</email>
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<published>2020-09-16T21:10:08+00:00</published>
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This commit serves two things:
1) it optimizes BPF prologue/epilogue generation
2) it makes possible to have tailcalls within BPF subprogram

Both points are related to each other since without 1), 2) could not be
achieved.

In [1], Alexei says:
"The prologue will look like:
nop5
xor eax,eax  // two new bytes if bpf_tail_call() is used in this
             // function
push rbp
mov rbp, rsp
sub rsp, rounded_stack_depth
push rax // zero init tail_call counter
variable number of push rbx,r13,r14,r15

Then bpf_tail_call will pop variable number rbx,..
and final 'pop rax'
Then 'add rsp, size_of_current_stack_frame'
jmp to next function and skip over 'nop5; xor eax,eax; push rpb; mov
rbp, rsp'

This way new function will set its own stack size and will init tail
call
counter with whatever value the parent had.

If next function doesn't use bpf_tail_call it won't have 'xor eax,eax'.
Instead it would need to have 'nop2' in there."

Implement that suggestion.

Since the layout of stack is changed, tail call counter handling can not
rely anymore on popping it to rbx just like it have been handled for
constant prologue case and later overwrite of rbx with actual value of
rbx pushed to stack. Therefore, let's use one of the register (%rcx) that
is considered to be volatile/caller-saved and pop the value of tail call
counter in there in the epilogue.

Drop the BUILD_BUG_ON in emit_prologue and in
emit_bpf_tail_call_indirect where instruction layout is not constant
anymore.

Introduce new poke target, 'tailcall_bypass' to poke descriptor that is
dedicated for skipping the register pops and stack unwind that are
generated right before the actual jump to target program.
For case when the target program is not present, BPF program will skip
the pop instructions and nop5 dedicated for jmpq $target. An example of
such state when only R6 of callee saved registers is used by program:

ffffffffc0513aa1:       e9 0e 00 00 00          jmpq   0xffffffffc0513ab4
ffffffffc0513aa6:       5b                      pop    %rbx
ffffffffc0513aa7:       58                      pop    %rax
ffffffffc0513aa8:       48 81 c4 00 00 00 00    add    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc0513aaf:       0f 1f 44 00 00          nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
ffffffffc0513ab4:       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi

When target program is inserted, the jump that was there to skip
pops/nop5 will become the nop5, so CPU will go over pops and do the
actual tailcall.

One might ask why there simply can not be pushes after the nop5?
In the following example snippet:

ffffffffc037030c:       48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
(...)
ffffffffc0370332:       5b                      pop    %rbx
ffffffffc0370333:       58                      pop    %rax
ffffffffc0370334:       48 81 c4 00 00 00 00    add    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc037033b:       0f 1f 44 00 00          nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
ffffffffc0370340:       48 81 ec 00 00 00 00    sub    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc0370347:       50                      push   %rax
ffffffffc0370348:       53                      push   %rbx
ffffffffc0370349:       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
ffffffffc037034c:       e8 f7 21 00 00          callq  0xffffffffc0372548

There is the bpf2bpf call (at ffffffffc037034c) right after the tailcall
and jump target is not present. ctx is in %rbx register and BPF
subprogram that we will call into on ffffffffc037034c is relying on it,
e.g. it will pick ctx from there. Such code layout is therefore broken
as we would overwrite the content of %rbx with the value that was pushed
on the prologue. That is the reason for the 'bypass' approach.

Special care needs to be taken during the install/update/remove of
tailcall target. In case when target program is not present, the CPU
must not execute the pop instructions that precede the tailcall.

To address that, the following states can be defined:
A nop, unwind, nop
B nop, unwind, tail
C skip, unwind, nop
D skip, unwind, tail

A is forbidden (lead to incorrectness). The state transitions between
tailcall install/update/remove will work as follows:

First install tail call f: C-&gt;D-&gt;B(f)
 * poke the tailcall, after that get rid of the skip
Update tail call f to f': B(f)-&gt;B(f')
 * poke the tailcall (poke-&gt;tailcall_target) and do NOT touch the
   poke-&gt;tailcall_bypass
Remove tail call: B(f')-&gt;C(f')
 * poke-&gt;tailcall_bypass is poked back to jump, then we wait the RCU
   grace period so that other programs will finish its execution and
   after that we are safe to remove the poke-&gt;tailcall_target
Install new tail call (f''): C(f')-&gt;D(f'')-&gt;B(f'').
 * same as first step

This way CPU can never be exposed to "unwind, tail" state.

Last but not least, when tailcalls get mixed with bpf2bpf calls, it
would be possible to encounter the endless loop due to clearing the
tailcall counter if for example we would use the tailcall3-like from BPF
selftests program that would be subprogram-based, meaning the tailcall
would be present within the BPF subprogram.

This test, broken down to particular steps, would do:
entry -&gt; set tailcall counter to 0, bump it by 1, tailcall to func0
func0 -&gt; call subprog_tail
(we are NOT skipping the first 11 bytes of prologue and this subprogram
has a tailcall, therefore we clear the counter...)
subprog -&gt; do the same thing as entry

and then loop forever.

To address this, the idea is to go through the call chain of bpf2bpf progs
and look for a tailcall presence throughout whole chain. If we saw a single
tail call then each node in this call chain needs to be marked as a subprog
that can reach the tailcall. We would later feed the JIT with this info
and:
- set eax to 0 only when tailcall is reachable and this is the entry prog
- if tailcall is reachable but there's no tailcall in insns of currently
  JITed prog then push rax anyway, so that it will be possible to
  propagate further down the call chain
- finally if tailcall is reachable, then we need to precede the 'call'
  insn with mov rax, [rbp - (stack_depth + 8)]

Tail call related cases from test_verifier kselftest are also working
fine. Sample BPF programs that utilize tail calls (sockex3, tracex5)
work properly as well.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200517043227.2gpq22ifoq37ogst@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com/

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski &lt;maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit serves two things:
1) it optimizes BPF prologue/epilogue generation
2) it makes possible to have tailcalls within BPF subprogram

Both points are related to each other since without 1), 2) could not be
achieved.

In [1], Alexei says:
"The prologue will look like:
nop5
xor eax,eax  // two new bytes if bpf_tail_call() is used in this
             // function
push rbp
mov rbp, rsp
sub rsp, rounded_stack_depth
push rax // zero init tail_call counter
variable number of push rbx,r13,r14,r15

Then bpf_tail_call will pop variable number rbx,..
and final 'pop rax'
Then 'add rsp, size_of_current_stack_frame'
jmp to next function and skip over 'nop5; xor eax,eax; push rpb; mov
rbp, rsp'

This way new function will set its own stack size and will init tail
call
counter with whatever value the parent had.

If next function doesn't use bpf_tail_call it won't have 'xor eax,eax'.
Instead it would need to have 'nop2' in there."

Implement that suggestion.

Since the layout of stack is changed, tail call counter handling can not
rely anymore on popping it to rbx just like it have been handled for
constant prologue case and later overwrite of rbx with actual value of
rbx pushed to stack. Therefore, let's use one of the register (%rcx) that
is considered to be volatile/caller-saved and pop the value of tail call
counter in there in the epilogue.

Drop the BUILD_BUG_ON in emit_prologue and in
emit_bpf_tail_call_indirect where instruction layout is not constant
anymore.

Introduce new poke target, 'tailcall_bypass' to poke descriptor that is
dedicated for skipping the register pops and stack unwind that are
generated right before the actual jump to target program.
For case when the target program is not present, BPF program will skip
the pop instructions and nop5 dedicated for jmpq $target. An example of
such state when only R6 of callee saved registers is used by program:

ffffffffc0513aa1:       e9 0e 00 00 00          jmpq   0xffffffffc0513ab4
ffffffffc0513aa6:       5b                      pop    %rbx
ffffffffc0513aa7:       58                      pop    %rax
ffffffffc0513aa8:       48 81 c4 00 00 00 00    add    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc0513aaf:       0f 1f 44 00 00          nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
ffffffffc0513ab4:       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi

When target program is inserted, the jump that was there to skip
pops/nop5 will become the nop5, so CPU will go over pops and do the
actual tailcall.

One might ask why there simply can not be pushes after the nop5?
In the following example snippet:

ffffffffc037030c:       48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
(...)
ffffffffc0370332:       5b                      pop    %rbx
ffffffffc0370333:       58                      pop    %rax
ffffffffc0370334:       48 81 c4 00 00 00 00    add    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc037033b:       0f 1f 44 00 00          nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
ffffffffc0370340:       48 81 ec 00 00 00 00    sub    $0x0,%rsp
ffffffffc0370347:       50                      push   %rax
ffffffffc0370348:       53                      push   %rbx
ffffffffc0370349:       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
ffffffffc037034c:       e8 f7 21 00 00          callq  0xffffffffc0372548

There is the bpf2bpf call (at ffffffffc037034c) right after the tailcall
and jump target is not present. ctx is in %rbx register and BPF
subprogram that we will call into on ffffffffc037034c is relying on it,
e.g. it will pick ctx from there. Such code layout is therefore broken
as we would overwrite the content of %rbx with the value that was pushed
on the prologue. That is the reason for the 'bypass' approach.

Special care needs to be taken during the install/update/remove of
tailcall target. In case when target program is not present, the CPU
must not execute the pop instructions that precede the tailcall.

To address that, the following states can be defined:
A nop, unwind, nop
B nop, unwind, tail
C skip, unwind, nop
D skip, unwind, tail

A is forbidden (lead to incorrectness). The state transitions between
tailcall install/update/remove will work as follows:

First install tail call f: C-&gt;D-&gt;B(f)
 * poke the tailcall, after that get rid of the skip
Update tail call f to f': B(f)-&gt;B(f')
 * poke the tailcall (poke-&gt;tailcall_target) and do NOT touch the
   poke-&gt;tailcall_bypass
Remove tail call: B(f')-&gt;C(f')
 * poke-&gt;tailcall_bypass is poked back to jump, then we wait the RCU
   grace period so that other programs will finish its execution and
   after that we are safe to remove the poke-&gt;tailcall_target
Install new tail call (f''): C(f')-&gt;D(f'')-&gt;B(f'').
 * same as first step

This way CPU can never be exposed to "unwind, tail" state.

Last but not least, when tailcalls get mixed with bpf2bpf calls, it
would be possible to encounter the endless loop due to clearing the
tailcall counter if for example we would use the tailcall3-like from BPF
selftests program that would be subprogram-based, meaning the tailcall
would be present within the BPF subprogram.

This test, broken down to particular steps, would do:
entry -&gt; set tailcall counter to 0, bump it by 1, tailcall to func0
func0 -&gt; call subprog_tail
(we are NOT skipping the first 11 bytes of prologue and this subprogram
has a tailcall, therefore we clear the counter...)
subprog -&gt; do the same thing as entry

and then loop forever.

To address this, the idea is to go through the call chain of bpf2bpf progs
and look for a tailcall presence throughout whole chain. If we saw a single
tail call then each node in this call chain needs to be marked as a subprog
that can reach the tailcall. We would later feed the JIT with this info
and:
- set eax to 0 only when tailcall is reachable and this is the entry prog
- if tailcall is reachable but there's no tailcall in insns of currently
  JITed prog then push rax anyway, so that it will be possible to
  propagate further down the call chain
- finally if tailcall is reachable, then we need to precede the 'call'
  insn with mov rax, [rbp - (stack_depth + 8)]

Tail call related cases from test_verifier kselftest are also working
fine. Sample BPF programs that utilize tail calls (sockex3, tracex5)
work properly as well.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200517043227.2gpq22ifoq37ogst@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com/

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maciej Fijalkowski &lt;maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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